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Hi! I am a type 1 diabetic and I have a place at university starting this September. Could anyone please advise me on which loans and/or grants am I eligible to apply for? Thanks!

Hi Meg, I'd love to chat to someone my age, I'm 18 in July. Have you got facebook? x

Hey, I'm glad you're exams went OK, I'm in the middle of my exams too. What subjects are you taking? I'll be your friend :) It might be too late for you to apply this year, but if you haven't already, you can go to your exams administrator in your school and ask for extra time and rest breaks...

That needle looks terrifying :wideyed:

Loving the diabetes banter on this thread:woot:

Are they appropriate for the forum or...? :oops:

But not a gay drink :p

Surely she could have made a pun about the highs and lows of blood sugar and marriage:D

Hahaha I've left school now but I'll try it on my friends although I have a feeling they'll be too whimpy to try it :p How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?

I agree with you completely, I feel like my friends need to understand the problems I go through, including the ones of being a diabetic, to see who I am accurately

Until they meet your wife who checks that you have taken your blood sugar :wideyed:

I wouldn't say it is easily manged though, it took me along time to get to grips with the right amount of each insulin and tablet and I still haven't got exercise sorted out. It's still a faff with prescriptions and all the doctors appointments even though there are worse illnesses.

The D word haha :rolleyes: my family second guess me too and I'm like "but it's my body, I know best!" My auntie borrowed a copy of balance magazine for diabetics but she just ended up skipping the technical stuff and looked at the recipes. I get what you mean about family caring if you're ok...

Aww that's sweet of your daughter! I tested my dad's blood sugar when he got some results from a general medical test back so I actually diagnosed him (with T2, not T1 like me) before the doctor! Thank you, I like a good vent sometimes :joyful:

Wow well said! There should be more information about it at schools, there is a lot of ignorance, I hardly knew anything about it myself until I was diagnosed!

What people call me doesn't really bother me. Just because I'm diabetic, it doesn't mean that I can't simultaneously be anything else, being diabetic isn't mutually exclusive to being anything else :cat:

How is having light gay?! or was that your point? ;)

It could just be the general stress that is causing your mood swings, not the lantus in particular. Why, do you feel particularly moody just after you have taken the lantus?

Yeah I didn't think my first post had gone through, sorry for the repeat. I found the bit on the link about aerobic and anaerobic exercise particularly useful :)

I have to eat carbs right before I exercise otherwise I have a hypo, but this is annoying because then I feel like I'm only burning off the calories of what I have just eaten, which is counter-productive. If I inject a couple less units for my previous meals, then my sugars do go high as...